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Stop trying to explain consciousness as something emergent from things. Its easier to explain it the other way around.
by KevinMS 1y ago
Stop trying to explain consciousness as something emergent from things. Its easier to explain it the other way around.
- theletterf 1y agoCould you elaborate? Things emerge from consciousness? I don't follow.
- balamatom 1y agoHow do you know that there's something instead of nothing?
- jrvieira 1y ago_René has entered the chat_
- KevinMS 1y agoThis is new to you? Its only the foundation of two major world religions.
- theletterf 1y agoAh, I see. I sort of hoped it wasn't that.
- qwertox 1y agoHas there been found a way to properly explain consciousness at all? You frame it as if there's a wrong way and a correct way. We're still watching the effects of the colors of the oil paint smeared on our hands while we just have an idea of the painting, but we don't even know if using a brush would be better than using a painting knife. If you explain it the other way around, you'll also face some serious issues. Do we live in a shared reality, independent of us, which allows us to "come in" and interact with other beings, with pre-set rules of how this reality shares ours and other's interactions among all of us, or is this an all-encompassing reality which is the result of the imagination of a single being, possibly even one seeing itself through multiple simultaneous interaction points we call conscient beings in this place we call reality, which this thing has invented all by itself, from the ant walking over a grain of sand to you reading this message on a screen, a screen "we" first had to invent? If not even that is clear, how can anything be easy about any of this?